bob mcdonald who was a veteran and i and erik and president obama and john and the u.s. chamber of commerce, default is not an option even if the deal is ugly. mcdonald was asked you were on tim kaine's side. the result would be an international fiscal collapse. i did support a deal rather than a default but don't support defense cuts. a very specific plan to avoid them. we can avoid these cuts, let the bush tax cuts expire as they were intended to expire. fix medicare so we can negotiate over the price of prescription drugs and take away the tax subsidies. if you do those two things, now you don't need to find a trillion dollars of cuts. you need to find $235 billion of targeted savings over 10 years and everyone says we can do that. the secretary says we can find savings but don't give us a number that's too ugly or make us save on the wrong things rather than the right things. i put a specific plan on the table. each of these elements are compromises. now is the time for compromise and specifics. not just shaking your fist and saying these cuts will be bad. let's solv